Exhausted.

It is that time of year where we are just busy, some of it fun, some of it by choice, some of it b/c the weather is just too damn nice to sit inside so we must find something to do! Thursday night our friend Baird was playing at the marina, so we headed up there to hang out, the kids feed the fish, listen to music and enjoy the weather!

Friday I might have skipped out of work a tad early and gone to the patio at Eatery A for a pizza and beer! :) Then we picked up the kids, got ready and headed out to Saints in Beaverdale for Susie's 50th birthday party. She had reserved the patio and patio room and it was perfect out! So we sat outside, the kids ate some food and played with cousin Mary.

 Susie's cake, looked like a disco ball and tasted so good.

 

It was made by the same guy who made her husbands bday cake a couple months ago. He is so talented!

 We got home late and the girls were tired! They are just so sweet sometimes!

Saturday morning we got up and dropped the girls off at a birthday party for a girl in the neighborhood. They had a donuts and dress-up party, it was so cute! Steve and I left and headed for the cystic fibrosis walk at Raccoon River. The top on the jeep was down and the weather was perfect!

Steve and I were able to actually walk the 3 mile walk (normally we have the kids and we know they won't walk that far and we for sure don't want to push them in a stroller that far!) We picked up the girls from that party, Steve went to the grocery store, the girls played, I showered and got ready, and then we hung outside until our next birthday party at Pump It Up!

This party was for our friends daughter Sadie who just turned 8. She had an orange party for her friend Gracie who has cancer. Instead of presents, they collected toys and such to give to the children's hospital. They had orange balloons, orange party favors and the girls were supposed to wear orange (which I totally forgot). I ran to Target while they were there and then we were going to head to Adventureland for a couple hours....however it was 5:15 and thank goodness I checked to see what time they closed and they closed at 6....so we changed plans and headed home (without whining from the kids!)
The kids played outside, I started some laundry and sat on the deck and finished my book. They ended up at the neighbors house, so we hung out over there for a bit and then on a whim decided to see if El Mariachi had room on the patio for dinner. They did, so we had a quick dinner there!

 and of course, stopped by Van Dees for ice cream on the way home!

I think we were all tired by the time we got home so we popped in Sing and watched part of that until we just all wanted to go to bed!